A Quick Update on the Digital Alcohol Studies Archives It’s exciting but also a bit intimidating to admit that I have been following in the footsteps of all the people who collected and preserved content related to alcohol research since 1939, when the first major grant from the Carnegie Corporation was awarded to document, index, … Read More
The Alcohol Library collected and preserved content related to alcohol research since 1939, when the first major grant from the Carnegie Corporation was awarded to document, index, and abstract the scientific literature on the effects of alcohol on the individual. In fact, the collection and the Library evolved from that pioneering project led by E. … Read More
The Alcohol Studies Archives is the online version of the Special Collections and Archives that used to be housed at the Alcohol Library maintained by the Information Services Division at the Center of Alcohol and Substance Use Studies. It was closed in December 2016. These pages, including the blog, attempt to save as much content … Read More
Discovered accidentally among a stack of unrelated documents in the Mark Keller Collection at the Center of Alcohol Studies Archives in 2012, the yellowing image symbolizes the big EMJ-mystery, referring to the adventurous life of E. M. Jellinek, one of the founders of alcohol science. An unorthodox 4×5-inch ex libris marked with the initials E.M.J. … Read More
With time passing, the ink is now barely legible on the original Bunky’s Doodle. Luckily, the CAS Library managed to digitize its cherished treasure in 2011, saving an electronic copy for prosperity and future research. The famous Bunky’s Doodle, or the Progression Phases of Alcoholism by Dr. E. M. Jellinek, pictured here, was presented to … Read More
New Brunswick Libraries Acquire “The Big Book” The New Brunswick Libraries has acquired a first edition of “The Big Book,” the popular name for Alcoholics Anonymous: The Story of How More Than One Hundred Men Have Recovered from Alcoholism, written by the A.A. founder, Bill Wilson (or Bill W). Since it was first published in … Read More
After the collection was moved out of the Adele and Brinkley Smithers Building in January 2017, the various parts are now housed in different locations. Current imprints, i.e., about 1,500 books published in the past ten years were relocated to the Library of Science and Medicine. Titles published earlier than that, including the Rare Book … Read More
The Information Services Division published a special issue of its newsletter to commemorate the 125th anniversary of E. M. Jellinek’s birth. The Jellinek research also resulted in the following scholarly publications: Babor, T. F., & Ward, J. H. (2016). E. M. Jellinek at 125: The past as prologue? Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, … Read More
The Information Services Division is pleased to share resources from its archival collection, including content from the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs and its predecessors, the Journal of Studies on Alcohol, and the Quarterly Journal of Studies on Alcohol. The new section of the web site features the history of the Center, the … Read More
The National Archives opened an exhibition earlier this year called “Spirited Republic: Alcohol in American History” in its Lawrence F. O’Brien Gallery of the National Archives MuseumNational Archives Museum in Washington, DC. Free and open to the public, this collection will be on display through January 10, 2016. The exhibit showcases the two different views … Read More